Chapter 95 Kyphotic Cervical Deformity Nathaniel Brooks, Michael P. Steinmetz, Christopher D. Kager, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Edward C. Benzel Kyphotic cervical spine deformity can be caused by advanced degenerative disease,…
Chapter 53 Laminotomy, Laminectomy, Laminoplasty, and Foraminotomy Gordon R. Bell, Edward S. Connolly Thoracic and lumbar laminotomy and laminectomy are two of the more commonly performed spine procedures. They have…
Chapter 123 Bone Graft Harvesting Mehmet Zileli, Edward C. Benzel, Gordon R. Bell Spinal surgeries typically involve neural decompression, fusion, or both. Fusion is performed to stabilize a segment, either…
Chapter 147 Dorsal Subaxial Cervical Instrumentation Techniques Harel Deutsch, Kurt Eichholz, Regis W. Haid, Jr., Vincent C. Traynelis Subaxial cervical instability has many causes, including trauma, degenerative disease, neoplasm, and…
Chapter 133 Arachnoiditis and Syringomyelia Ron Riesenburger, Steven Hwang, Edward C. Benzel Syringomyelia can develop secondary to many pathologic processes such as Chiari malformations, spine tumors, cysts, traumatic events, spinal…
Chapter 230 Medical Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury Administration of High-Dose Steroids Charles H. Tator Trials of neuroprotection and pharmacotherapy in acute spinal cord injury (SCI) have focused on…
Chapter 141 Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Construct Design Gandhi Varma, Darrel S. Brodke, Edward C. Benzel Construct design is a process that formulates a specific blueprint for an orderly and…
Chapter 102 Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Lesions Basheal M. Agrawal, Barry D. Birch, Paul C. McCormick, Daniel K. Resnick Before the advent of microsurgical techniques, surgery of many spinal cord neoplasms…
Chapter 161 Lumbar Total Disc Arthroplasty Vladimir Sinkov, Paul C. McAfee Lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD) is a common cause of lower back pain—the most frequently encountered complaint in a…
Chapter 34 Cervical Spine and Cervicothoracic Junction John W. German, Tyler J. Kenning, Alexander J. Ghanayem, Edward C. Benzel, Joseph T. Alexander Cervical and Nuchal Anatomy An understanding of anatomy…
